ABC News’ Terry Moran: ‘Right-Wing Media’ Politicizes Muslim-Led Terror Attacks but Not American Ones

ABC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Terry Moran criticized “right-wing” media for politicizing Muslim-led terror attacks but not American-led mass shootings as the U.S. reels from one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history.

Terry Moran, brushing aside any notions of journalistic objectivity, wrote on Twitter: “A Muslim commits an atrocity, right-wing media instantly politicize it: ‘Pass the travel ban!’ US mass shootings—’Don’t talk about guns!’”

The gunman who opened fire at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas Sunday night killed 59 people and injured more than 500.

Moran is one of many media figures who criticized and made generalized assumptions about right-wing Americans that cast them in a negative light after the Las Vegas massacre.

CNN Senior White House Correspondent Jeff Zeleny told CNN in an interview Monday after the shooting that country music fans are “likely” supporters of President Trump without offering any explanation for his generalization.

CBS executive Hayley Geftman-Gold wrote in a Facebook post that she was not “sympathetic” to the victims of the Las Vegas shooting because “country music fans often are Republican gun-toters.” CBS released a statement hours later saying that Geftman-Gold was fired for her remarks.

Moran also has a history of casting Republicans in a negative light. The former Nightline anchor equated Trump’s inaugural speech to “Nazi rhetoric” after he accused Trump’s “America First” policy of having anti-Semitic overtones.

In February, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson ran a segment on Tucker Carlson Tonight that poked fun of Moran’s Twitter feed for its liberal bias. Carlson called it a “DNC press release with added moral outrage.”